Keeping cultivated yeast

[enitharmon]

Assuming that one has successfully cultivated a yeast strain from a bottle-conditioned beer, how would one go about storing it for use in future brews?

I'm hoping to start my upcoming brew with yeast from a bottle of Fullers 1845. What beers have others found particularly successful for cultivating yeast strains?

 

[31bb3]

it will keep in the fridge in small pet bottles then just add it to some dme to kick start it some brewers freeze it and have restarted it

 

[ScottM]

I cultivated 2L of yeast from a vial that I bought. I've got 1.5L stored in the fridge right now. Should be good for quite some time.

 

[theboytony]

I'm sure there's a thread on here from a couple of years ago where people started putting up yeast that they had successfully harvested from bottles, I've tried searching but its hard to do from my phone with a crappy connection

 

[dennisking]

Fullers 1815 is a fine yeast.

 

[Mark1964]

never seen that 1 dennis where do you buy that?

 

[adomant]

If you are going to keep it for a long time, try to replace the beer on top with sterile water (could use bottled) yeast will be happier in its dormancy

 

[dennisking]

never seen that 1 dennis where do you buy that?

Woops 1845

 

[Mark1964]

thought id never seen that one

 

[Good Ed]

never seen that 1 dennis where do you buy that?

Woops 1845

Is this different to the one used in Bengal Lancer?

 

[dennisking]

I'm not 100% sure Ed, think I've read Fullers use one stock yeast for all their brews.

 

[Good Ed]

Thanks Dennis, I've just used the yeast from the Bengal Lancer for the first time, worked great, but only got 70% attenuation. Still tastes good, I'm having a quality control sample of it that I bottled at the weekend

 

[The Goatreich]

I tried cultivating some Bengal Lancer yeast before and it was my first and only go cultivating from a bottle. After a week or so it started to smell almost meaty, so I didn't use it for a brew and just left it in the DJ for a while. Frankly I couldn't be bothered to clean it up. When I finally did the smell coming off was completely beery, so it was obviously working, but just with an odd smell to start with. I'll have to give it another go.

 

[Good Ed]

sorry to hyjack your thread again enitharmon

I'm assuming that the Fuller's Bengal Lancer is the equivalent of WPL002 or Wyeast1968, but wouldn't be sure

 

[dennisking]

I'm assuming that the Fuller's Bengal Lancer is the equivalent of WPL002 or Wyeast1968, but wouldn't be sure

This has been mentioned quite a bit on forums. I have also heard they are not 100% like for like. Fullers will probably not keep and treat their yeast in the same way as Whitelabs will. And we all know yeast can be very fickle.